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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 471–2
Summary:

Studying geotropism.

Experiments using exposure to frost to study nyctitropism are difficult to perform because species vary in frost tolerance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:

Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.

Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.

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Darwin Correspondence Project